Bitter rich in nutrients: vitamins B and C, iron, calcium, and phosphorus. Bitter rich in vitamin B, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, riboflavin, dietary fiber, bitter gourd base; its nutrients in melons and vegetables be higher, especially vitamin C content among the highest in melons, equivalent to 10 to 20 times snake melon, gourd, and can help the body metabolism, strengthen the immune system, prevent scurvy, protecting cell membranes, detoxification, prevent atherosclerosis and other effects; except beyond this, in recent years found that there is some kind of bitter melon juice physiologically active protein, this protein will be injected into animals, stimulate and enhance the ability of immune cells in vivo phagocytosis of cancer cells, it may be the same alkaloids quinine together play a role in cancer in the body; clinically confirmed extract from bitter melon seed trypsin inhibitor, lymphosarcoma and leukemia are particularly effective, but also to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) surfactant protein can be used as the AIDS epidemic analgesics. In addition to the promotion of appetite, fever-inflammatory, anti-cancer effect, bitter gourd contains bitter glycosides, 5-hydroxytryptamine, glutamate and other amino acid peptide and substance, have significantly lower blood sugar; scientific researchers from India animal studies found that insulin-like substances, not only can seriously decrease blood sugar in diabetics, but also can promote the decomposition of sugar, has to make excess sugar into heat effect, can improve the body's fat balance; our scientists confirmed isolated from bitter melon insulin a P, which reduces blood sugar is also significantly higher than the treatment of diabetes drug benzenesulfonamide Ding, therefore, ideal for diabetics gourd food; also known as the "fat killer.